Great news! I received a voicemail that I won a $5000000 check, 10 bars of gold and a lovely gift basket. All I have to do is call someone named Joseph Evans and give him some private bank information to be able to receive the gift. But what will I do with the gold bars?

They found a way to monetize it… by accessing your bank account.

So pleased that our paper on empowerment and causal models is out and freely available as part of this impressive special issue on world models and AI, with Melanie Mitchell, Josh Tenenbaum, Tom Griffiths and many other stars. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...

🚨 The growing KNOWLEDGE CRISIS.👇 LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723 [pre-print] "LLM hallucinations are infiltrating knowledge production at scale, threatening both the reliability & equity of future scientific discovery..."

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

interesting new fellowship for people studying child development, available for early-career folk (10 years since PhD, US$300K over 3 years, worldwide eligibility)

Hey folks, www.smart-workshops.com is sponsoring yet another free webinar. This time on how to navigate and be successful at PCORI grants taught by Kelley Kidwell (UMich Professor of biostats) You can find out more and register here: smart-workshops.com/pcori-info Feel free to share!

1. You must never be boring, but also don't be fun, or else they won’t respect you as a parent. 2. You must curate a schedule of sports, academics, and whimsy, but don’t curate it so it will be child-led...

Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. In a new research letter, authors present the findings of a reference-integrity audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers. Read this & more in our latest issue: spkl.io/63325A7eXP

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

#AcademicSky Good lord Another new paper out citing a paper supposedly by me. Problem? Paper doesn't exist! PEOPLE! Please, please, please do your own scholarship and do NOT rely on AI-based literature searches. Seriously. I have a right to not be cited saying what you're saying I'm saying

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

"'The biggest thing is to urge more people to conduct this type of cross-national research so that you can get a sense of not only what’s transpiring within the United States, but how it compares to other nations,' [Frank Infurna] said." #Loneliness #Psychology

I’m excited to announce that I will be joining the faculty in the Center for Vital Longevity at UT Dallas in August 2026! My lab will study cognitive, affective, and motivational changes in aging and Alzheimer's disease using the combination of multimodal neuroimaging and daily life sampling. 🧠📱

Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :) Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106

I fear a new addiction has begun by trying this delicious Honey Bear latte.

@icpsr.bsky.social is looking for a new Director. If you have archival experience or are a prominent researcher who uses archival data, then this may be the job for you! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hiring a research coordinator for our NIMH R01 studying childhood adversity, emotional development, and suicide risk in kids ages 5-7. Based in Research Triangle, NC. Great mentorship, competitive pay, real research experience. Apply/share: greeneresources.com/job/research-as…

Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am sure the pilots thought it was essential co-MEOW-nication.

In exciting news, I'm rolling up to #CDS2026 recruiting a grad student for *this fall* thanks to 2 new grants! My talks in the Metacognition preconference (AM session), and in the disagreement symposium (Fri first block) will preview the two main lines of work in my lab right now.

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

Where you live might matter more for your brain than your actual medical diagnosis. A Nature Med study of 18k people across 34 countries shows that combined environmental factors (the exposome) explain 15.5x more variance in brain aging than any single factor alone. #MedSky 🧠

Different types of childhood maltreatment appear to uniquely shape human brain development

Check out this @nature.com paper on how the brain’s functional hierarchy evolves from birth to 100. Infants' gradient architecture is anchored by sensory systems, differentiates along association and control axes during childhood/adolescence & dedifferentiates in aging www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

Congratulations to all! And especially to my wonderful colleagues Tiko Yoneda, Emorie Beck, and Ariel Mosley!

Respectfully disagree. As a former debater & middle school debate coach, it was clear everyone is capable of critical thinking, but the skills to evaluate claims, evidence, and competing arguments need to be taught. Conspiracy theories are not due to excessive efforts to spur critical thinking.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Potentially Harmful Consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbot Use Among Patients With Mental Illness: Early Data From a Large Psychiatric Service System - Wiley Online Library (Feb 6, 2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461

Public anxious about AI? Yep. 👇 via @economist.com

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

Ug- thanks for the heads up @camhostinar.bsky.social ! Corrected link: www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...

When a brain researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious. By @lyrebard.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

Will likely become a classic! And welcome to BlueSky @nicolebushphd.bsky.social 🎉

A bit of a Festivus inspired post about CLPMs and RI-CLPMs: floggingpvalues.blog/2026/01/20/t...

A study shows a cow using a "multi-purpose" tool — a broom, for scratching. "multi-purpose tool use... is extraordinarily rare. Beyond humans, it has only been shown convincingly in chimpanzees." Another example of "this animal is smarter than we thought" 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Our recent paper discussing why children might care more about animals. A joy to write with @lmcguire.bsky.social @nadirafaber.bsky.social Jared Piazza and Katja Liebal. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.